Naunet
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Naunet Nwnt The Urflut (underground) |
Naunet is the ancient Egyptian goddess of the ancient sea of the underworld and belonged to the Eighth of Hermopolis . She is the wife of the nun . In the Old Kingdom she was one of the four deities who were placed by the two great gods on the northern side of the late king ( Pharaoh ); her husband now sat opposite her on the south side. From the other pair of gods, Shu was responsible for the eastern and Tefnut for the western region.
Naunet is represented in the pyramid texts with the determinative of the subterranean area and understood as the source of all earthly waters, which together with the heavenly waters of Nun create a unity. Naunet thus also symbolizes the annual flood of the Nile , which creates new life.
See also
literature
- Hartwig Altenmüller : Mindfulness. In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1975, columns 56-57.
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd edition, Berlin 2000, pp. 5-6, ISBN 978-3-937872-08-7 .
- Reinhard Grieshammer: Well. In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Vol. 4, Wiesbaden 1982, columns 534-535.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . (LGG) Vol. 3 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Vol. 112). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1148-4 , pp. 550-551.
Individual evidence
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is shown in the pyramid text as an inverted sky.